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Nature Medicine 15, 994 - 996 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0909-994
Two sides to cilia in cancer
Rune Toftgård1
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Rune Toftgård is at the Karolinska Institutet Center for Biosciences, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, NOVUM, Huddinge, Sweden.
e-mail: rune.toftgard@ki.se
Abstract
The primary cilium can keep cancer at bay, or it can instigate tumor development, according to studies in mice (pages 1055–1061 and 1062–1065). The outcome depends on the nature of the initiating event, which involves signaling through the Hedgehog pathway.
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